I get stymied trying to make aliases in /System/Library/Preference Panes. I got around this by doing command line stuffs.

I made a folder, then to terminal, cd'ed into that folder, and typed:

for i in `ls /System/Library/PreferencePanes/`; do ln -s $i . ; done

and I got all my shiny aliases. I've done this to get aliases out of other hard to reach places, as well. Oddly enough, the Finder won't let you make aliases in folders, not even with a password, not even if you try to drag it out of there (it copies in that case).

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Now it's giving me "the original alias could not be found" when I click on them, and pointing to the original in the Finder does not work either. :(

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I didn't make the aliases IN the preference panes folders; I just held down option and command and dragged the .prefpane files to my newly created folder. I don't recall being asked to authenticate once.

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When I do that, it copies the PrefPanes. Then when I double click one it just opens the Sytem Preferences program but does not go to the specific prefpane (opening "Appearances" or any of them take you to the main menu).

What I did find to work simply dragging /System/Library/PreferencePanes to the dock, no permissions required. It's ugly (all the icons change into "document" style icons) and I did take advantage of my administrative powers to put a file labeled "_icon" in the folder, giving it the same icon as System Preferences program. But this won't work if you have prefpanes elsewhere on your system.

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